2018 Fall Meeting

10-15 December

For more and more geoscientists, joining forces with local communities to achieve practical benefits, such as pollution mitigation, flood prevention, and reducing climate change impacts, is a focus of their careers. These volunteer scientists are leveraging tools, insights, and professional networks from their fields of expertise as they work in equal partnership with the communities benefiting from these collaborative efforts. In this workshop, reporters will get acquainted with a few of the hundreds of community science projects taking a place in the United States and abroad—for instance: monitoring water quality in an Ohio community living with hydraulic fracturing platforms and an initiative on the island of Jamaica that aims to convert food waste to electrical energy and fertilizer.